It seems that any attempt to escape from the Death Magnetic PR machine is impossible at the moment; after catching up on the weekend's football highlights we stumbled over this documentary about Metallica on BBC2's The Culture Show.

To quote the show's host, "Nothing it seems quickens the pulse like the prospect of a good thrash." On the evidence of what we've heard, Death Magnetic promises to be the most thrash-tastic Metallica record in years.